Oregon AFL/CIO

Celebrated as “John Mitchell Day” in Scranton, Pennsylvania (where a statue of Mitchell, who led the UMWA from 1898-1908) was erected in 1924), in remembrance of Mitchell’s success in the “Great Strike” of 1900 when over 100,000 anthracite miners struck, returning to work on this date.

Alice Henry, Founder of Women's trade Union League, born - 1857